My family and I love the show
Last Man Standing on ABC; in particular the rants by Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) on his "vlog". Sorry for the crude recording, but this particular rant was just too fitting for my blog to pass up! We really do allow words to
cripple, hinder our interactions. Before we react to something someone has said, we need to do a bit of rational thinking and examine the intent and context in which the word(s) were said. They may not be nearly as horrible as you originally thought they were!
This is perfect! I can so relate. One day a phrase from my childhood came out of my mouth that caused some consternation for my daughter.
ReplyDeleteI said, "I got gipped."
She said "you can't say that!"
I said "I think I just did."
She said, "Well it is derogatory to gypsies!"
I said "I have never heard of such a thing, and in this case, intent has merit! Someone charged me more than they should have."
Question: So if the speaker has not idea of the politically correct intent, can/should they be made aware?
Ok, so now that I have stopped laughing.... I think it is good to have some kind of awareness however with that said, what huge undertaking when you think of all the various cultural groups in the world. I got gipped as derogatory. I am going to have to look into that cause it really has me scratching my head. Intent rules here...there was no ill intent meant.
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